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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
F ort Mis s oula,Mont ana May 21, 1941
IN REPLYING PLEASE REFER TO THIS FILE NUMBER
Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Washington, D.C. ^^^��^�1^. <^?T> >/\
Hereon attached newspaper item appeari in the 'Daily Missoulian1 of May 21, 1941:
608 Italians Now Interned At Bella Vista
483 Arrive in Missoula, Are Taken Quickly to Detention Station.
Three and one-half hours after their arrival at Bella Vista, Fort Missoula detention station, Tuesday morning, 483 Italian seamen, including officers, .orchestra and band members and a priest, were transferred from their special barred train to the barracks, behind iron poles and heavy wire fencing of the internment station.
The train reached Missoula at 10:55 Tuesday morning, and at 11:15 unloading began at a point south of the fort, where immigration authorities took over the job of transferring the men from the 20-car train to waiting trucks.
The arrival of the 483 men Italians boosted the population of Bella Vista-to 608. One hundred and twenty-five arrived here May 9.
As before, the latest transfer was orderly. At 1:30 Tuesday afternoon but two cars of the detained men remained for checking and transfer. As the men alighted from the train they exclaimed that the trip was a long and tiresome one. � "Era un viaggio lungo," said one. (It was a long trip).
Their reaction was much the same as their predecessors. They Joked and laughed.
As they moved from train to trucks, news cameramen ground out pictures.
Jjos-pe'ctor in Charge, Fort Missoula.
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
F ort Mis s oula,Mont ana May 21, 1941
IN REPLYING PLEASE REFER TO THIS FILE NUMBER
Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Washington, D.C. ^^^��^�1^. >/\
Hereon attached newspaper item appeari in the 'Daily Missoulian1 of May 21, 1941:
608 Italians Now Interned At Bella Vista
483 Arrive in Missoula, Are Taken Quickly to Detention Station.
Three and one-half hours after their arrival at Bella Vista, Fort Missoula detention station, Tuesday morning, 483 Italian seamen, including officers, .orchestra and band members and a priest, were transferred from their special barred train to the barracks, behind iron poles and heavy wire fencing of the internment station.
The train reached Missoula at 10:55 Tuesday morning, and at 11:15 unloading began at a point south of the fort, where immigration authorities took over the job of transferring the men from the 20-car train to waiting trucks.
The arrival of the 483 men Italians boosted the population of Bella Vista-to 608. One hundred and twenty-five arrived here May 9.
As before, the latest transfer was orderly. At 1:30 Tuesday afternoon but two cars of the detained men remained for checking and transfer. As the men alighted from the train they exclaimed that the trip was a long and tiresome one. � "Era un viaggio lungo" said one. (It was a long trip).
Their reaction was much the same as their predecessors. They Joked and laughed.
As they moved from train to trucks, news cameramen ground out pictures.
Jjos-pe'ctor in Charge, Fort Missoula.
N
if